“Manchester United obviously looked at him before he moved to Barcelona, Arsenal have been very keen on him”

Duncan Castles

“[As well as Coutinho] they’ve also got Malcom on the market this summer and, again, I would see him as being a player that would appeal greatly to a number of the Premier League clubs,” he told The Transfer Window podcast.

“Manchester United obviously looked at him before he moved to Barcelona, Arsenal have been very keen on him, I believe Tottenham Hotspur have an interest in him too, although not sure he fits into the recruitment policy Tottenham have going into next season.

“So yeah, there could be a lot of movement from Barcelona. It’s interesting the way they’ve set themselves up.

“It’s a different kind of stockpiling of players, but they’re doing that Manchester City, Chelsea thing of buying players with the view of having them as part of their club for a season or a couple of seasons can increase their value and allow them to make profits from the transfer market that will subsidise the purchase of their superstar names they need to keep themselves at the top of the Spanish league and in the Champions League.”

Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham will battle it out for Malcom this summer - Castles (Pic: GETTY)

Castles claims Barcelona have put Malcom up for sale this summer (Pic: GETTY)

Manchester United and Arsenal are the frontrunners to sign the Brazilian, says Castles (Pic: GETTY)

Another man who could be on his way to the Premier League this summer is Adrien Rabiot.

The PSG midfielder, 23, has been frozen out at the Parc Des Princes after refusing to sign a new deal at the club.

According to football consultant Ian McGarry, Rabiot could be of interest to the likes of United, Liverpool and Spurs.

“We know that Adrien Rabiot will definitely leave on a free, freedom of contract in the summer,” he said.

“The interesting thing is in their 2017/18 accounts, Paris St-Germain actually made a £40m profit, which given the FFP worries that we assumed Paris St-Germain have given the recruitment of Neymar and the incredible wages he’s on, you’d have thought they’d be struggling to fulfil the FFP obligations.

Adrien Rabiot is likely to leave PSG in the summer (Pic: GETTY)

“There doesn’t need to be a wholesale exodus of players in order to either buy Coutinho or indeed pay him and play him. But what will be interesting I think for Premier League clubs is that no club is quite stockpiled as high as PSG in the last two to three years, and so I can see maybe three or four departures in the same way that we saw players like Serge Aurier and Lucas Moura join Tottenham, and obviously Blaise Matuidi went to Juventus and has prospered there.

“So I think you’ll see that there will be interest from the likes of Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham in some players at PSG. I guess one of the things that they have to consider of course is the high wages that PSG pay, so they’re coming in already at a high level.

“Rabiot in particular is only 23 but will be able to command an excess of £12-15m a season because there is no transfer fee involved, so that will be one of the sticking points for any player being recruited from Paris.

“However, they do have a lot of talent in their squad and other than Coutinho, you’d expect them to recruit as well. So I think there’s gonna be that kind of merry-go-round effect, where one transfer will trigger another.”